Speaking of ads on Facebook and its subsidiaries, looks like big FB is prepping video ads for your news feed. There’s more:

In what’s sure to be a controversial move, the visual component of the Facebook video ads will start playing automatically – a dynamic known as “autoplay” – according to two of the executives. Facebook is still debating whether to have the audio component of the ads activated automatically as well, one of these people said.

Thus dashing my dream that autoplay would join <blink> in the trash heap of markup history.